Bart Moeyaert

(Belgium, 1964) writes poetry, scripts, short stories, and audiobooks in addition to YA and children's novels. He was studying Dutch, German, and history in Brussels when he debuted with Duet met valse noten (Duet with False Notes). It won the prize of the Flemish YA and children's jury. For Flair magazine he wrote about his great role model, Astrid Lindgren. He later worked for Flemish daily newspaper De Standaard and wrote TV sripts and plays. In 2000 he toured a theatrical show of stories about his childhood from his book Broere (Brothers), which had won him the Woutertje Pieterse Prize, among others. Together with the Dutch Wind Ensemble he created De Schepping (Creation), a personal interpretation of Haydn's Die Schöpfung. In 2003 he debuted as a poet and three years later became poet laureate of Antwerp. His adaptation of L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) was published in 2013, the text by Ramuz upon which Stravinsky based his composition. Moeyaert is the artistic director of guest countries Flanders and the Netherlands for the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair.